Japanese
English edit
Etymology edit
From Japan + -ese after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, French japonais, etc.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
Japanese (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or derived from Japan, its people, language, or culture.
- A Japanese saw is one that cuts on the pull stroke rather than on the push stroke.
- In the United States, Japanese animation has had a tremendous surge in popularity over the last few years.
- 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change[1], page 319:
- Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
of or relating to Japan
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Noun edit
Japanese (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese or Japaneses)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) A person/people living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.
- A Japanese will typically have black hair, brown eyes, and pale skin.
- 2007 October 16, Madeleine Brand, “Japan Struggles to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Limits”, Day to Day, National Public Radio,
- Motoyuki Shibata isn’t a typical Japanese.
- 1938, Ogden Nash, The Japanese:
- How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, "Excuse it, please."
- (uncountable) Japanese food.
- Let’s go out to eat. I’m in the mood for Japanese.
Usage notes edit
As with other terms for people formed with -ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Japanese", "writing about Japanese cuisine as a Japanese") is uncommon and often taken as incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Japanese") or with a word like person, man, or woman ("writing about Japanese cuisine as a Japanese person"). However it is rather frequent in East Asia as a translation for the demonym written 日本人 (rìběnrén) in Chinese or 日本人 (Nihonjin) in Japanese.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
person of Japan
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Proper noun edit
Japanese
- A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language of Japan.
- I’ve been studying Japanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
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Japanese language
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Derived terms edit
- anti-Japanese
- Japanese amberjack (Seriola quinqueradiata)
- Japanese beech
- Japanese Bobtail
- Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum)
- Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone)
- Japanese cake
- Japanese chestnut
- Japanese climbing fern
- Japanese clock
- Japanese clover
- Japanese dormouse (Glirulus japonicus)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Japanese English
- Japanese fever
- Japanese flood fever
- Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)
- Japanese ivy
- Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica)
- Japanese lacquer tree
- Japanese lantern (Alkekengi officinarum, syn. Physalis alkekengi)
- Japanese millet
- Japanese monkey
- Japanese nightingale
- Japanese pear
- Japanese pheasant
- Japanese pine
- Japanese river fever
- Japanese rose
- Japanese scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis)
- Japanese sea bass
- Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus)
- Japanese slipper
- Japanese spitz
- Japanese stiltgrass
- Japanese studies
- Japanese sumac
- Japanese theorem
- Japanese wolf
- Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)
- Middle Japanese
- non-Japanese
- Sinico-Japanese
- wapanese
See also edit
- Japan
- Japanophile
- Nipponize
- Jap
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Japanese terms
- Appendix:Japanese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Japanese
Further reading edit
- ISO 639-1 code ja, ISO 639-3 code jpn (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Japanese, jpn
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Adjective edit
Japanese
- attributive form of Japanees
Noun edit
Japanese
German edit
Etymology edit
From Japan + -ese, after the model of earlier Portuguese japonês, New Latin japonensis, etc.
Noun edit
Japanese m (weak, genitive Japanesen, plural Japanesen)